The MIT community has rallied behind the Tidbit students in support of them and their efforts, in stark contrast to the school’s silence when Swartz was arrested.

As MIT students and faculty have warned, the fear that any state can issue broad subpoenas to any student anywhere in the country will have a chilling effect on campus technological innovation beyond Tidbit.”

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A lot of this software can be prohibitively expensive, especially for someone who only wants to use the program for a specific project, for instance, or is just interested in learning how to use Photoshop or InDesign. Checking the program out of the library for a week would make far more sense than shelling out hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars for your own personal copy.

The software-lending library flips on its head users’ whole relationship with the cloud. Now, the program used for editing a video analyzing a statistical dataset will live on the cloud, but the file itself will be on a local hard drive.

“If you’re trying to edit a big, high-definition file on your computer with a copy of Adobe Premiere hosted remotely at a data center across the country,” Deacon noted, “it’s going to require pretty good two-way connectivity.”

The model of remotely hosted software interacting with files sitting only a few inches from users’ faces is something that could revolutionize how computers are set up. With the computational heavy lifting done elsewhere, complex tasks like video editing could be quickly and efficiently done on small, inexpensive machines that only require a fraction of the processing power of many of today’s devices used for similar tasks.

Thus far, the Internet’s greatest innovation has been turning mass media into a two-way street. For the first time ever, anyone could push just as much information out into the world as they received.

At least, that was the hope. In reality, the very physical infrastructure of the Internet made that ideal something that could only be realized partially.

Institute for Social Research Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US House of Representativeshttp://t.co/1JWfQ1eUnL

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